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Thomas Edison's Accomplishments
Thomas Edison lived from 1847 to 1931 and during that time he achieved greatness, and will be remembered for ever. Hist first great feat was when he was 15 he wrote and printed a newspaper and sold it to 400 railroad workers. Then when he was 16 he saved a kid's life, so his dad taught him how to become a telegraph worker so he did. When Edison was 20 he tried to join the military, but he was kicked out because he was partly deaf. Another great thomas invented was the phonograph (Phone-O-graph) which made imprints on a soda can sized piece of wax with tin wrapped around it. Which then he could play back and I would make music. Later he would use disk´s. Another thing that edison created was the Light bulb. His team searched 6,000 organic

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